WATER SUPPLY FOR THE EASTERN SUBURBS, --:o:- iEN''lHIUSI ASTIC MEI?.' I NGS. T'hie ioveinent wrhilch ies been lnauguir. slted in this district ill order to seculre all lllelent waler supplly, is likely, from all appearances, to be nattended with the most gritifying results. Tlioe residents of Canter. bury, Nuiircy HIills, and Blox Hill lhalvo taken up Ihlo subject in a miost buIniness.like man. nler. Thel filact haIs bcei mostl indelibly iin. prissed upoln theolli that this I'rge, iimport'. nilt, |ild wcallthly distric cllnllotl prolgress to any extenllt uilless lilt ollicienlll water supply is securelld. Tile sutffOeringl whiLch is enltailod uiion th?o inhabitalnts evoery stuntilner, espeol. ally lupon thei working classes, anmounts to a grealt hiardshlip, nlid in imanly instanleu diseanse his been clearly Itraced to tIu dlrilk ing of ihnmpure watelr. In order to obviate this sufferilg, anlld to stir up Ilme Publlo Works I)epiirtlcient to fulill n prolilae tlhant was mllade in gool...

Tinit inhabitants of this district have, at last, to use a rather common ex pression, taken the bull by the horns, in dealing with tlleo all iportant stctiuo lof water supply, The groat o.trn!itioe to which all classes of society 1hav buee put to during the ilIst few weeks for the 'wanit of water, has aroused tie indignation of .tlie citiz.ens throughout tho length and breadth of this large district, who have held public indignation meetings in the centres of population for tle express purpose of letting tlhos in authority know that they do not in. tend to submit to the present unsatis factory state of tilings any longer. Tihe inhabitants virtually y y in so many words that they are not going to be satisfied and put ofi any longer with unredeemed promises. There can be no disputing tle flct that if the Public Works I)epartment had piushed on with the work of laying tihe main from tlhe Yun Yean to Surrey Hills with the least expedition, and simultaneously .had proceeded with the reti...

Local News. &amp;nbsp; Trlue dutputi tion utppointced at tlh roeont public ntetings hldd ill tlhix di?utict lo' the purpos?u of iumproving tlhc watcr uIupply will wait upon the lion. thlu Coluumis.,ioeru of Public W\orkls, on Wdlucduy next. !11th iust., at 11 a.uu. All iuture-tCd in thu iuuovu'eiuut a.e re'ueU?tuld to uccOlmipaLn" the dueputautionu . T'lth ,ucretiLuy of tihe I'De?t, riu tilnuulr', \\ater Le?,guue, Mur. Jlus. Slluddtoll, hn. rcueCiveULd it coI mlulliicIatioUI fromIu the S?cUetiL'iry of tIIthC \\'Water Supply h)CtpaLrtmenCLut lixing tlhe duhy uiud tihne iueuitionied above as the dlate on which the Colulnissioner will rcci'o tihe dcpultattiOll. Owing to a wroig figure in the Ji'ojrter Trophy table last weuk, it mnade it appear the 13ox Hill club had only gained II1 points, whllereas, it shouhld hi:ive been 4S. At the ucmetilg of the cNunawcading Coun cil on Monday, Cr. Dilhop said lce thought that the dog tax should be collected at the samel time as the rate.-colle...

The Wide-Awake Boy. As he lay in his cradle, a wee little mite, Examining flingers and toes with delight, And earnestly gazing with wide-open eyes On the Itrange world around hliin, and each fresh surprise. His nurses, delighted the baby to please Would hand hiin the trinkets he'd eagerly seize ; And, oh ! nt his antic, and capers they smiiled, Rlejoiced to behold such a wide-awako child Wlhe once on hli feet, then his course is not slow ; Fromn corner to corner he'll eagerly go; And within the enclosuro that lheus hiil arouid Ieu'll travel, and know every inch of the ground. His ear arre widle open, as well as his eyes, And lie listens alld listensl becoling iiioro wise Iacl day ; and his parents, with pride and S witli joy, Observe tle rich growth of lthe wide.awalk boy. From books and fromn people, froin every-day A harvest of good mo of evil lie gleans: The weeds nd the rubbish, or pearls of reat pricer I'roil gardens of virtue, or miarshes of vice. For all sorts of knowledge li...

B : Sad Oase of Drowir.g. -;o:· A svey end and mielancholy occurretico happened in the hlox Hill JUrick Conipany's danm, which in close along side the works, on Iriday evening, lith inst., whcn a young miai nanied John Stainsbury was necidently drowned. On the evening of that day, which had been unusually hot, the young uipn, in comipany with his younger brother, ames Stainebury, wvcnt to tho damn to have a batheo The younger of time two was the first to get into the water. iHe got on to a kind of raft, and on this he paddled a shliort distance from time, bank. On lookinmg round lie saw his ibrother comning towards IlImin, and told hlinti to bo careful as there were ii lot of, holes in the ihani. 11ie had only just iitterd these words whle he saw his brother disappear in one of those hmolok. lila brother, on coniing to the surface, miiainagcld to got into shallow water agalim, but as hle was try. ilg to reimceI his younger brotlier, whfo was on the raft, le steppeil into amnotimer h...

Box5H~ill Cndui:tFZ (tlIfor Mesare. Wmi. Ellinggwortli (in the chaii) and Jas. 1'epperill anul Capt. Oar. side, J's.l'.) A middle aged man named Joseph Leigh was charged with having no lawful visable iiiealn5 of nolijiOrt. Constalle VilWlson sail the accused called at teu police station, nt Surrev Hills, on the previous Sfuniday night, andL asked to be locked up as he wua unable to work. He0 saidlid Il ad comea froni Lilydale, and lhal d had to live on charity for the Inast three monuts. The nocused snid he had been in the in furanary, in Nuw Soutli WaVnles, suffering (romt an attack of parnlysis in the right arm aidt left leg. Ho had derivcd tiiunhl benefit from thu trhntann he t lehad received there, aind was sent away as cured. He. eanmo to this colony, got wrork, whon he w'ae again itlllictel with hlis old malady. In consoe ijuence of pacalysis agaIn coiing on himn he had1(1 to give up his emiiploymineit, which wiis iibouL Ithoo thre onths ago, and. site tittit tiio lu haIld got...

A Pleasant Send-off. A large, respectable, and reprjesntativo gatllering inot in the Clurch of Christ, Surrey Hills, on Thursday night, 5thl.o March, for the purpose of wishing Mr. W. Wilson, who sailed for Hlnghliid on Satur. day, boll I'oyale, aiid also to \isl him l ti a safo return to Ilis native land. Mr. Wilson has been a resident'of Surrey Hills for several yeanr, anld as (lwiVys taken pn qeutvu in toroult Ilui'lthering ayl"y illovYi'lent which had for its object the elevationl of tlhe young Ime111 andl thle gelneral illproveluent of thle district. Thel church was lhandsomely decorated for the occasion, the wall of the building being lhung with suitable anld aIppro. priato llottoes. Tei chair was occupied by Mr. Tyce, of Carlton, who said they had llet together for the purposo of wishing their highly estleemed brother and fullow-labourer in the caitis of Ohrlpt, (od-spsod, I Insppy isltd prosperous jounloy, and a satf return. As Mr. Wilson was no wull known to all prouent ho ...

AUSTRALIAN SANITARY COMPANY, LIMITED. A Commendablo Proposal. New Way of Getting Over an S Old Difficulty. TIle following is reprinel d from the * Even;iti Stmlard of Saturday, February S1.1, 1ti1:- It would soecn that after many years ol failuro, muchl ulnploasanltnoss, and danger to tihe publio health, we are at last about to roaolh tlhe point where, under a imore pro. greaoivo oondition of things, wo ought to havo arrived at long before this. A good few years must nocBesarily olaipm before any proper system of drainage can be carried out in Melbourno, and if Iehoves us to make some better anld halthicr provision than now exists ponding tile now drainage arrange. ment, wi wlr we all hope to see soime day brought to perfootion by tile Mturopolitain Board of Works. Tihe present process of removing niglhteoil is an abomination, i dis grace, ind a'standing inonanc o to tle popn ation ; and that a substitute should be found for it imnirediately is highly imperative. One of tile mIost c...

COUNCIL INTELLIGENCE. ---:0:- ]IOIIOONDARiA SHI-HE COUNCIL. LoNDAY, MAIcU VTrn, Presont: Cr. Dillon, President (ih the cluir), Iand Crs. Vear, Mitling, Taylor, Hicks, Drain, Clayton, and COIIIIHIP5ONi)NNCE, Fromn the Health Oficed beig a letter that wIs hIOlldover _fr'o m. last. Iniceiig, ·re l increse of Rsalary. In rfrence to thils lmatter C.* Brainl said theeio was- local freling i'omva lent t oit ell the oikrs of the council should reside in the district, antii le thought that they should endeivour to 3get a health oflicer who lived in the Sshire. Wliere it was possible they should appoint local men. Cr. Hicks a said hle thought it would be very bad 3 grace to dispoeise. with the services of Ithe Health Oflicer nowv that lie annited an increase of silai'y. lie iiioved " That the salary of the -IHaltli Oflicer be increased to £flO a year." Cr. Day sCcoiided the motion, and iii doing sosiud hle thought it would heu out of place, as well its iuijimst, to dis pin5su with J)r. M'Mull...